After meeting with Jon Gruden on Tuesday, former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon decided Wednesday he wouldn’t be joining his former coach in his second go-around with the team. Gruden wanted Gannon to be his quarterbacks coach, and Gannon said Wednesday he probably knew his answer all along.

“I just realized that to work alongside Jon Gruden, it takes a special person,” Gannon said in his weekly appearance on 95.7 FM. “It takes a person with great energy, and passion, and more importantly, time. I just didn’t think it would be fair to myself, my family or even to Jon not to either be all in with him, and so, we talked this morning. I think he understood that.

“I think he probably knew that before we even really (talked). He knows me as well as anybody.”

Gannon liked the idea of working with quarterback Derek Carr, and he still might.

The CBS analyst could stop in at minicamps and training camp to lend a hand, and the collective...

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